leaders of russia and north korea hold their first ever joint summits after more than two hours of face to face talks. and expressed a willingness to work towards the nuclearization of the korean peninsula. with a sample of german king all three directly to tell the us about his position and about the questions he has connection with the situation on the korean peninsula president and some of his most unpopular policies during a speech aimed at fusing the widespread public anger sustaining france's nationwide protests. also a un report notes u.s. international and government forces in afghanistan are responsible for more

civilian deaths than the militants they've been fighting to get reaction from locals for the child or woman killed in afghanistan the afghan government should ask the foreign forces about them but there is no one to watch we have concerns we want the americans and i says to stop killing our people we don't want the u.s. and nato here. live from moscow watching our things and i don't know hawkins review was right welcome. to visit north korea following what the leader described as a very meaningful exchange in russia's far east the two heads of state met for the first time on thursday discussing denuclearization efforts on the korean peninsula as well as international sanctions on their countries bilateral ties our correspondent elizabeth franco was in one of our stock. well it turns out that in

a sense john is counting on volodymyr putin as a kind of a middleman in delivering his messages to the rest of the world leadership by the way mr putin's next destination is beijing there you have it but it looks like chairman kim is hoping that his message will get all the way to washington through russia as well but it's. directly to tell the u.s. about his position and about the questions he has in connection with the situation on the korean peninsula we also found out that the russian leader as confident that pyongyang essential desire is international security guarantees guarantees for sovereignty and when it comes to dating queries nation according to mr putin the only way forward is through these kind of guarantees i would like to remind you

that for years russia's peace road map was about mutual concessions from both sides of north korea on the one hand and south korea and allies on the other and china is backing of this plan to well the russian president believes that for years every step forward made by washington was followed by two steps backwards . we need some confidence building measures to be taken which could have been taken back in two thousand and five when the u.s. and north korea came to an agreement however later on for some reason the american partners thought this was no it's enough that they needed to add something more to this agreement that's when north korea with drew from the treaty if you're making a step forward in two steps back you'll never succeed after what we heard on thursday it is definitely fair to say that there is a lot of potential and kim putin some. and by the way the president of south

korea said that this summit in flat of austar should act as a springboard for further top ranked diplomacy between washington and pyongyang so chairman kim has been joining contacts with the most powerful politicians on this planet his two historic summits with the american president donald trump were followed by one with a lot of our putin and it looks like mr kim knows what he's doing when he's playing his geo political game must take a closer look at the atmosphere during the talks on just how president putin welcomed his north korean counterparts in russia's far east.

body language expert how it felt and told us what he thinks of the leaders movements. of the interesting things about to vladimir putin and and we see this often with him if he's meeting he's very protective of the obvious our own space it's very rare for somebody to come into his zone or close to his proximity when they shook hands he was quite dominant kim kim jong il and by dominant i mean he is and takes all the downward position we saw that kim juggle wanted to try and establish a bit of dominance very himself when he got to that point that's when putin kind of left god just quite a long handshake and i think vet and shake was well it was very important by the time that there was sitting on those chairs having that conversation it was very very little movement from king john when he was quite. uncomfortable i think it was

a sense of relief that this was over actually for kim jong il. and there's no doubt that the son that was really about just having a son that. he is it was an easier discussion in that it was really just about more about the historic event he was quite relieved when it was whether it was over but i don't think by any means there that it had gone exactly how he was hoping that it would go following his meeting with putin north korea's leader visited a memorial site that he gave to those from the far east and for more secure region who lost their lives to in world war two and laid flowers there as a mark of respect. a major international forum on china's belton road initiative has just got going in

beijing dozens of world leaders are in attendance as well as the heads of the international monetary fund the belgian road initiative is a highly ambitious infrastructure project that aims to boost the global trade and drive economic growth one trillion dollar twenty first century remastering of the growth will see roads railways and ports constructed in around sixty countries it's seen as the taproot of the chinese president's foreign policy plans and it's caused consternation in some western capitals where it's viewed as a tool for proper rejection by beijing. made an impassioned address to the french public on thursday night in which he promised the raft of social reforms but in a televised speech which was saying that quelling the widespread anger that's been driving the country's yellow vest protests the president defended some of his most controversial policies shall lewinski reports from paris. thursday night saw

president macaroons very first press conference at the elisei palace he was due to speak for twenty minutes he spoke for almost an hour with his vision of what his mandate for the next three years of his presidency should be he talked about external things other than fronts particularly about borders saying that the shang going area in europe doesn't work he said that europe needs to be stronger and it needs to have stronger borders usually and today we must take note of the for good things ongoing as well as they should be on the european level we have decided to have common borders the much talked about sharing an area with the rules of the dublin accords they do not work anymore now in terms of more internal issues which is a risen from the last few months of the grand debates here in france he said that in future there will be lower taxes he also said that pensions with less than two thousand euros

a month will be reindexed from the first of january twenty twentieth's that's next year meaning that they will rise at the same rate of inflation now he also talked about more referendums taking place in saying that the threshold for things to be discussed in parliament would be lowered to a million registration votes by citizens if they demand it and he also talked about cracking down on islam islam saying that that was against the cohesion of the nation now one of the more controversial issues that michael also touched on was the reforms that he introduced last year in two thousand and eighteen and this was the reform to the wealth tax which for many yellow vests has been a very big bone of contention let's have a listen to what president michel said about bans on who can be a member who will tax reform was widely perceived as a gift to the world and a real financial injustice this reform did not remove the wealth tie. it was

a transform ation to encourage investment in the real economy research factories and production because if there's no national investment there is no economy it's my duty to defend the pragmatic reform we'll review it in twenty twenty and if it's not effective or too large we will correct it it's a reform to achieve results not a gift to the richest president michael may have spoken so almost an hour with the wind draining discussion of the things he'd like to do over the next three years but what he would like to learn quite a lot was the details so yes he talked about lower taxes but he didn't specifically say what that meant in terms of i think well the yellow vest protest is be happy with what's been announced it's unlikely what we do know is that these protests have been some of the most violent in france for more than half a century. now cool since the right one and we're not going to change it just because the wind is blowing.

professor of french and francophone studies paul smith and political commentator john burke one save the president's office on liking to quell the widespread public anger. the french population is in favor of what he's suggesting so this was kind of playing catch up with. almost certainly though we know there are going to be protests at the yellow burst don't really seem to have very very much to do to offer apart from turning up in france the city centers and and causing disruption but it's the broader movement of the yellow vests those who we don't hear very much from who are kind of being pushed to the edges that may well be a bit more open to what. is suggesting people are unhappy with this policy but what

is true is that there is no united demand about what to do with this is that school i didn't say the european union there's nothing here you can do because you have been one to force these sort of nearly well if loans and of course engage with that but even he didn't can do anything about it so is the dilemma in a.c.s. measures is more social spending more. or less taxes but in settings this course is it is going to get dirty and i know i was going to balance the budget there's a lot of those alleged so it seems at least it is mostly in the course of these courses trying to satisfy people that is only. because the content is too deep. in afghanistan local government to u.s. and international forces have been responsible for more civilian deaths than the militant forces they've been fighting that's according to a new u.n. report the findings reveal the first three months of this year saw almost six

hundred civilian deaths most of the deaths come from airstrikes conducted by international forces led by the us and nato the number of victims is off almost forty percent on the same period last year when asked locals for their reaction. among them have been you know we always requested from the american forces and the afghan government if you want to bombard any areas please take care of the civilians there. don't target civilians for any child or woman killed in afghanistan the afghan government should ask the foreign forces about them but there is no one to watch we have concerns. of our people have been killed or injured we have become widows children have lost their fathers people have lost eyes we want the americans in isis to stop killing our people we don't want the u.s. and nato here we will work with each other that are the work that we that we request from foreign forces and afghan government forces and from the taliban that if you are fighting with each other do not use residential areas as

a position if the american forces do not take into consideration the civilian casualties in afghanistan and they continue killing civilians by name in them insurgence the future will be very bad for them. or u.s. military forces have launched investigations after previous u.n. reports washington currently has about fourteen thousand troops in afghanistan and most of them are involved in an operational nato led training mission in december it was reported president trump would reduce u.s. forces in the country though there's been no sign of that being put into action what else has been seeking the peaceful resolution of america's longest ever war there are concerns though that any deal could lead to a new wave of instability in the region. we've spent close to one trillion in the afghanistan all of that is a truce if you screw up on the day after a peace agreement a dramatic decrease in not only troops but financial support for the afghan government will mean the collapse of the government you have five hundred thousand some troops and police who are trained and have weapons you have sixty thousand

taliban who are trained killers they want to be reintegrated plan for that. we just a day after the u.n. report on afghanistan was published amnesty international and there was a least a report on civilian casualties in the syrian city of rocco in twenty seventeen it finds that the u.s. led coalition responsible for the deaths of more than six hundred civilians that's ten times the number admitted by the u.s. government writer and commentator abdel bari atwan says the u.s. must stop such practices. people are killed that there. will be. you know civilian areas there are bombing schools so i think this kind of bombardment should be stopped because the civilians people who are paying the price for this american actress does and that prompted the words i believe the american troops american administration is fully responsible for. among those

that began that particular you know more than a thousand people were killed that man is going to do this that he still is a responsible because the supposed to be in control of the actually should be. responsible will be spending and be the international community should actually take action against. microsoft's fake news watchdog called news god is facing heavy criticism in the u.k. it's labeled as trustworthy three controversial tabloid papers the sun the daily mirror and the daily star it's not the only issue that the new blacklisting program is raising little call to picks up a story. remember news guard that handy dandy microsoft program that tells you what is and isn't fake news while they're still hard at work putting little green checkmarks next to information they like in search engines use cards co-founder calls it applying a little common sense to searching information we're going to a ploy common sense to a problem that the algorithms haven't been able to solve we're going to hire dozens

of journalists to read and review the seventy five hundred news information common sense might not be enough if the admins are living under a rock the whole robert muller's report is out and many liberal tall tales about trump russia collusion have been debunked still a lot of those stories are marked with a big friendly checkmark trump sharing polling data with the russians check except it's not true muller subpoenaing bank rec. check but same thing not true trump's lawyer secretly meeting with a kremlin official in prague well at least they change the article a bit still a big check even though the title isn't exactly true in fact the checkmarks don't even have to do with how wrong the story is if news card trusts the outlet they're good to go are green red reading signal if website is trying to get it right where instead has a hidden agenda or knowingly publishes falsehoods or propaganda so i guess the

takeaway from that is that outlets like the new york times and buzz feed's don't really have hidden agendas and if that sounds ridiculous to you don't worry news guard will make sure you know right from wrong soon enough what's interesting to note is their reaction to this they're saying we are not necessarily acknowledging or passing judgment on the veracity and accuracy of the information we're just passing judgment on these source of it these people this source this group this website this newspaper this whatever we give them our check mark we approve of them what they say wow we don't really necessarily pass judgment on that if you go down the list of all of those items which have passed editorial muster it's the

same it's breathtakingly obvious to anybody that if your story or if you are source repeats this this trope that there was russian collusion. obstruction of justice anything negative to it would be chad and there proved without any problem not misleading trustworthy verifiable job well done. u.n. security council meeting on the crisis in eastern ukraine was held on thursday here representative called the session in response to a new russian initiative that will make it easier for people in the war torn regions of donetsk and lugansk to obtain russian citizenship came a credible plan looks into the story now the fifteen member body that leads the united nations held a meeting to discuss the situations of the peoples of ukraine now there is

widespread condemnation by the united states britain france and other countries of russia's recent decision to do create that people living in ukraine's eastern region have the right to apply for russian citizenship as president of ukraine signing or did you could he use yet you know the interference or deduction for the internal if over an independent state a brutal way allision absorber into the border integrity and the unity of ukraine. and when you really should see we're not interfering in ukraine's internal affairs and we're not engaged in creeping on excision which is giving people the opportunity to solve critical problems the authorities in kiev have refused to address alternately even before the decree hundreds of thousands of ukrainians are deployed to russian citizenship we're not forcing them to become russian citizens if they themselves. now the representative of the russian federation he emphasized

that the situation in east ukraine where the people have been under blockade and not able to receive medical aid and such has been rather dire and that if it weren't for the humanitarian efforts of russia these people would be left with nothing the u.s. and other countries have accused russia of somehow violating the minsk agreement by offering russian citizenship the russian ambassador was very clear that this was not a violation of the minsk agreement however he argued that many of the actions of which continue to keep the people in the eastern regions isolated have indeed violated the terms and the spirit of the minsk agreement so clear disagreements within the u.n. security council chamber when it comes to the situation in ukraine. the head of the . people's republic amused in ukraine has confirmed the deaths of two people in an explosion at a coal mine the fate of fifteen other workers is currently unknown it's believed that the boss was caused me think justly. reports. people's

republic emergency services haven't arrived here at this scene over a coal mine blasted few hours ago at the moment there is still no working behind me and they are now waiting for the russian emergency services to come and help them as well and those guys are expected to be here in the early hours of friday morning so for we know for sure that soupy people to coal miners have been killed as a result of this blast and fifteen people are still unaccounted for and this is where the risky mission is taking place right now berman cost of artsy lugansk region. international human rights groups have been scathing over saudi arabia's execution this week of thirty seven men reportedly mostly from a shia minority on terror violence and unrest related charges the body of one person was even strung up in public following his execution human rights watch

states it marks a long escalation in the use of the death penalty in the country the rights group described the punishment as grotesque. brings us this report few things so is much fear into the hearts of your own people is mass executions the men were executed for adopting terrorists an extremist thinking and performing terrorists else to corrupt and destabilize security allegedly among their crimes was this respect towards authority some of them can you believe that unlike the king protested against him so serious with their crimes that one of those executed was also crucified yes crucified in two thousand and nineteen his body strong up for all to see all the fia. today's mass execution is a chilling demonstration of the saudi arabia no authority and callous disregard for

human life it is also yet another gruesome indication of how the death penalty is being used as a political tool to crush dissent from within the country's shia minority in fact almost half of those killed were executed after taking part in pro-democracy protests see the arab spring didn't skirt saudi arabia the shia minority rose up they wanted change better fairer life the king obviously thought they wanted too much. one of those executed by the way was sixteen years old at the time of his arrest

attending a protest apparently he was still a kid now he's an example you wouldn't believe how creative the saudis are when it comes to killing prisoners in fact the current king began his reign by staging a massive execution forty seven people behaved it shot for crimes that included disobey and saudi rulers biggest blood show since the nine hundred eighty s. who said fictions and common peaked in two thousand and twelve and five people were strung up paralysis reportedly is also in a judge's arsenal seriously they can sentence a person to be paralyzed as punishment roots back to a four thousand year old law or that someone wrote on a stone pillar to throw a tooth. and literally in this case a knife or an eye saudis took that. very seriously in two thousand and

five a court in saudi arabia ordered a migrants i gagged out as punishment for getting into a fight and putin also a favorite especially for theft chopping off people's arms and feet stealing and of course stoning reserved for crimes like being too friendly with the opposite sex what can you say you want to cherry on top saudi arabia's on the un human rights council what a world. has defended its decision to execute those individuals in that it won't hesitate to punish anyone threatening the security and stability of the kingdom the spokesperson for the gulf institute for democracy and human rights for two more years back believes the saudi justice system cracks down on those whose views differ from the official position. it's not the first time which saudi arabia that

you know t. took punish prisoners of conscience who hold dared to spoke out about the human rights violations in the country we've not just there is i think and five of the of the executive people who where really charged by terrorist jitter is in time get we don't trust saudi arabia and use your system we don't trust how did how did the saudi authorities handled the matches especially against the british theirs who took to the streets to demand rights and freedoms and who spoke out about what was happening in the country. as most of the gulf kingdom saudi arabia uses is to did you show the system to fabricate the charges against the dissidents especially against the activists who spoke out or who was being social media outlets or rules participated in demonstrations there is a taboo in the gulf kingdom especially in saudi arabia no one is

a low just speak about what's happening in the country has come up to seven thirty am here in moscow that's it from the team myself for this morning and my colleague under farm will be with you next hour to bring you the latest global news updates. they can come and blow our brains out at any given time if we can't really do anything actually america is the only country in the world where you can kill people. wore it legally get away with. all the fog across stillbirth all the trouble here is briefly all the points it's hollow flying. k.k.k.

one exists because america wants it to exist they have the biggest terrorist group to ever operate in this country and they're dead to me they're worse saul's than the people who destroyed the world trade center or the scroll while. i do think the numbers mean something they matter us is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime m.p. this is. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be old rich eight point six percent world market or percent some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and when he rose to twenty thousand dollars. check.